Example sentences of "[adv prt] around [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 2 | As the sun faded into a blood-red haze , Lieutenant Davis and his men finally sat down around a nest of campfires which a small detail had built earlier . |
| 3 | Not long afterwards , when the visitors had left , Chola fetched the rugs from the inner room and the family lay down around the fire and slept . |
| 4 | Once Nadirpur and Saint Julien had been introduced , everyone settled down around the large ‘ Ops Room ’ table while Brandy organised coffee and biscuits . |
| 5 | However , the weather is very different to the west of a sinuous line that curves down from a point off the east coast of Japan and then very roughly parallels , a thousand miles out , the outline of Asia — curving in towards Borneo , out over New Guinea , down around the Solomons . |
| 6 | In the World Cup quarter-final Skinner hit Cecillon with such force that the echo has barely died down around the Parc des Princes six months later . |
| 7 | Be prepared for a breakdown in communication and for certain individuals to misbehave or let you down around the 12th and the 26th . |
| 8 | Armed and unarmed Iranians streamed in-along with gusts of tear gas that the US marines had laid down around the door . |
| 9 | There was no message from the police captain , and he was on the point of leaving again for the City of Dreams when a rickshaw , its linen sunscreens pulled down around the passenger seat , rushed into the square and stopped by him , blocking his path . |
| 10 | These include Stanwick Castle and an older property at Streatlam which was probably being pulled down around the time Edelson House was built , he says . |
| 11 | Let's see ! ’ said the others , crowding in around a big pan of stale bread and biscuits . |
| 12 | They heard water cascading from broken gutters outside and the insistent drip , drip , drip where it had found its way in around a window . |
| 13 | We were nevertheless off the ground in around an estimated 500 metres and the initial rate of climb at 90 knots settled down to around 1100 feet per minute . |
| 14 | So the main tension in Around The World In 80 Days ( BBC 1 ) , in which Michael Palin does a Phileas Fogg , is whether the famously amiable presenter will ever rise to a barbed remark . |
| 15 | If you try to squeeze these requirements in around the mainstream business , you will be left with scrappy little bits of free time that are useless , and your visitors will feel cheated . |
| 16 | But in 1919 disenchantment set in around the globe . |
| 17 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 18 | Joints open up , and crumbling putty allows water to seep in around the panes , eventually rotting the glazing bars and frame members . |
| 19 | On encoffining , the hood would be unfolded and drawn over the face , the top sheet turned up and tucked in around the neck , if not higher . |
| 20 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 21 | Limp orange light was leaking in around the edges of a grey blind . |
| 22 | The Albanians feel the CSCE has been hoodwinked , and believe that guns are being dug in around the city . |
| 23 | The lid stopped it all from falling out when you tipped it over and the air is getting in around the cracks in the lid . |
| 24 | Even as the car was pulling away , another was swinging in around the Green . |
| 25 | I inspected the room in the faint light coming in around the shutters . |
| 26 | He had to hitch his chair forward to make room for a party who were moving in around the table behind him . |
| 27 | The yard was bright as day for a few seconds , then night crept back in around the flames . |
| 28 | All this had to be fitted in around the other main tasks of the day . |
| 29 | The dead trees had edged closer to the settlement ; they crowded in around the clearing and the blackthorn hill , with its bones and its wooden idols . |
| 30 | Bare coloured bulbs flashed on and off around a come-on sign . |